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Re: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN support



On 08.06.2016 09:09, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Maybe a minor nit:
> 
>         case _SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN: 
> -               return _getpagesize();
> +               return PTHREAD_STACK_MIN;
> 
> 
> I would make that the max() of the two values, and also do the same for
> the EINVAL test in libpthread. Machines with > 8k pages do exist.
> 
> Also I am still not convinced we should have this symbol, as my reading
> of the standard is that our current state is perfectly fine.
> 
> However, MINSIGSTKSZ is wrong on those machines too, so maybe ignore for
> now (or mark with XXX comments)?
> 
> Martin
> 

The point is to abstract this work to determine minimal stack size from
3rd party software.

Is defining it as per-port value correct?


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